Look, I get it. You don't like this lady because she beat the pants off Scottie2Hottie and is trying everything in her limited power to dismantle the class war you've carefully crafted these last 40 years. I get it, I really do. If I was some cartoonish supervillain, I'd be pissed too if some upstart came out of nowhere and started to kick my ass on things and break the reality I've cultivated for decades. I get it. It's like fighting Batman for all these years and "winning" when suddenly you've got Robin's mother kicking you in the balls and telling you to grow a pair. But I gotta say one thing, suck it up and eat a bag of dicks, you scruffy nerfherders.

Well there's another plan they could use: craft a political ideology based on sound, moral policy that is capable of winning national popular elections in the face of a changing electorate. That or keep fighting windmills.

Republican's continuing war on the fight to save the practices of Wall Street. While they push the BS onto the disenfranchised about Gay Marriage and Abortion and immigration. Keep money flowing in from all the moral issues then spend it on protection of Corporate interests, and Oil lobbying. fark them all.

But corporations are the most under-represented persons in the US. There are what, 300 million citizens in the US? Then number of good hearted corporations worth a damn are in the thousands. You call that fair??

Hey, GOP, remember when you wouldn't allow a straight up-or-down vote to Elizabeth Warren to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau? Remember what happened? A former senator who drives a truck remembers.

karmaceutical:But corporations are the most under-represented persons in the US. There are what, 300 million citizens in the US? Then number of good hearted corporations worth a damn are in the thousands. You call that fair??

Plus they won't even let corporations vote. How is disenfranchising some of our country's wealthiest people in our best interests?

I really haven't seen a good explanation of the Republican objections to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Even the Heritage Foundation (which might sometimes make deceptive arguments, but at least puts up a fight) just seems to say "Look at all these things lending agencies do! The CFPB monitors ALL those things for abuse!" despite agencies like the SEC having similar power to root out abuse with little (many would say too little) interference in legitimate business. I can actually support the idea of changing the institution to give it a board of directors rather than a single one, but trying to remove any independence the bureau has is a blatant attempt to make banking regulations even more toothless than before. I'm already cynical enough to think that regulatory capture is going to set in within a decade, can we at least give it a chance to shine a light on the shady things banks are doing before then?

Bashar and Asma's Infinite Playlist:Well there's another plan they could use: craft a political ideology based on sound, moral policy that is capable of winning national popular elections in the face of a changing electorate.

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Prerequisites: capability of honest introspection, a certain measure of humility, ability to distinguish a "first principle" from a derivative principle, and the willingness to admit something they've espoused never worked in the real world.

I hope everyone here is aware that the vast majority of Democrats are in bed with the banks as well. While there are a few good people out there (on both sides of the aisle) the vast majority are not looking out for your interests.

Their plan is to try and paint Obama as the author of all the NSA business. And that's it. That's all they have, and pretty much everyone in the universe knows the GOP put that set of laws in place, so even if Obama is a dick for still doing it, it's ultimately Bush's fault =p

This guy. I can't believe anyone in the universe would vote for this turd. Seriously, illegal to go down on my woman, put into law by someone whose name sounds like a cooche. I'm guessing he is a closet gay.

Mandabunny:Republican's continuing war on the fight to save the practices of Wall Street. While they push the BS onto the disenfranchised about Gay Marriage and Abortion and immigration. Keep money flowing in from all the moral issues then spend it on protection of Corporate interests, and Oil lobbying. fark them all.

Yep. Keep the herd distracted. You won't see them rob you when you are looking the other direction.

If the CFPB is allowed to move forward and the businesses that fall under it are no longer able to take advantage of morons and rubes, they will be forced make up for that loss by taking it out of the pockets of real Americans.

karmaceutical:But corporations are the most under-represented persons in the US. There are what, 300 million citizens in the US? Then number of good hearted corporations worth a damn are in the thousands. You call that fair??

They make up for it by controlling a whole lot more of congress. The poor dears have no choice.

Debeo Summa Credo:imontheinternet: Who cares if a few million people get defrauded by banksters? It's not like that could cause a massive economic collapse or anything.

Millions of people being defrauded by banksters caused the economic crisis. This is what farklibs actually believe.

And idiots like this are exactly the type of people who are duped by grandstanders like Warren.

Bankster predatory practices are what triggered the crisis, and you know it. The fact that NINJA loans and balloon payments even exist is evidence of this. If a con man swindles somebody out of their money and runs off, you don't place all the blame on the victim. The ridiculous leveraging of bad assets is what made the crisis as bad as it was, which is another issue that Warren is trying to address.

You're being willfully blind in the defense of the criminals who caused the crash and are in the process of setting up the next one.

imontheinternet:Debeo Summa Credo: imontheinternet: Who cares if a few million people get defrauded by banksters? It's not like that could cause a massive economic collapse or anything.

Millions of people being defrauded by banksters caused the economic crisis. This is what farklibs actually believe.

And idiots like this are exactly the type of people who are duped by grandstanders like Warren.

Bankster predatory practices are what triggered the crisis, and you know it. The fact that NINJA loans and balloon payments even exist is evidence of this. If a con man swindles somebody out of their money and runs off, you don't place all the blame on the victim. The ridiculous leveraging of bad assets is what made the crisis as bad as it was, which is another issue that Warren is trying to address.

You're being willfully blind in the defense of the criminals who caused the crash and are in the process of setting up the next one.

THeeeereee'sss trouble in river city folks! With a capital T which Rhymes with P and that stands for POOOOOLLL!

Look, I get it. You don't like this lady because she beat the pants off Scottie2Hottie and is trying everything in her limited power to dismantle the class war you've carefully crafted these last 40 years. I get it, I really do. If I was some cartoonish supervillain, I'd be pissed too if some upstart came out of nowhere and started to kick my ass on things and break the reality I've cultivated for decades. I get it. It's like fighting Batman for all these years and "winning" when suddenly you've got Robin's mother kicking you in the balls and telling you to grow a pair. But I gotta say one thing, suck it up and eat a bag of dicks, you scruffy nerfherders.